Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Andrea Tantaros’s lawsuit against Fox News is OMG WTF INSANE!

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Tantaros complained to the bigwigs, and asked them not to book Brown on the show anymore. They were like “OK” and continued to put him on the show. In the same vein (and now we are thinking about dick veins, I don’t know why, I am sorry), Tantaros asked not to go on gross ol’ alleged harasser Bill O’Reilly’s show, because of how he was a gross ol’ alleged harasser, and ONE TIME they said “yes you do not have to.” Princes!

Basically, the entire gist of the suit — aside from a bunch of stuff at the end about how the network fucked her on sales and promotion for a book she wrote — is that Andrea Tantaros complained about these things, to multiple people, at least one million times, and for her efforts, was rewarded with being ignored, demoted, and blacklisted. OH, and apparently the network planted unfavorable social media posts and “news” stories about her, in other outlets.

A common practice, according to the suit, was “sock puppeting,” where Fox would use a “sock puppet” Twitter account to either make Tantaros look bad, or “sexualize [her] image,” as in one instance with actor Dean Cain, who “inappropriately hugged her” on set, at which point Irena Briganti, head of publicity for Fox, “arranged for a picture of the hug to be tweeted … with the caption: ‘Things Heating Up Between Andrea Tantaros And Dean Cain.'” Irena sounds like a real great feminist to us, don’t you think?

And the new co-president of Fox News, Bill Shine, was allegedly a huge part of the cover-up: Full story...